While the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years.

According to Gallup’s World Poll, many people in the world hate their job and especially their boss. My own conclusion is that this is why global GDP per capita, or productivity, has been in general decline for decades.

To demonstrate the historical seriousness, stress and clinical burnout and subsequent suicide rates in Japan have caused the government to intervene. The current practice of management is now destroying their culture — a staggering 94% of Japanese workers are not engaged at work.

Employees everywhere don’t necessarily hate the company or organization they work for as much as they do their boss. Employees — especially the stars — join a company and then quit their manager. It may not be the manager’s fault so much as these managers have not been prepared to coach the new workforce.

Managers have been trained to fill out forms rather than have high-development conversations.

Only 15% of the world’s one billion full-time workers are engaged at […]